Sorry…

The ‘pastor’ at the time was a grade-a prick. He gave me the willies when he looked at me. And he liked to look at the young girls…

He hated movies. He hated John Denver (for being a druggie ‘Rocky Mountain High’ indeed). He hated me for pointing out that he was so full of shit as to burst.

Children were ‘programmed’ to spout bible verses at random. Children were programmed to know the books of the bible, frontwards and backwards. They were given prises if they could start at a random chosen book and either go forward or backward from there.

They spent so much time learning about the bible that they didn’t actually learn the bible. Treat others, etc…

I remember one of the Hill daughters actually going out of her way to block my car at the local grocery store. God but she hated me…

That experience alone worked a great deal to turn me away from their god. And god that would support that kind of hatred wouldn’t blink an eye at one of them killing me or beating me to a pulp.

One other thing. The Hills lived on an old dirt road next to a field that had a major trail through it that crossed the road. I used that trail at one time to get back and forth to a summer job. Well, the Hill’s decided to string a stretch of barbed wire across the trail. Thank god it wasn’t attached or it would have done a lot more damage than it did.

Spiteful, hateful, negative and ‘kissed by the all mighty. Never has a more toxic soup been concocted… That ‘church’ still exists, BTW… They even have a web site: http://www.eastbaycalvary.org/

The ‘pastor’ at the time was a grade-a prick. He gave me the willies when he looked at me. And he liked to look at the young girls…

He hated movies. He hated John Denver (for being a druggie ‘Rocky Mountain High’ indeed). He hated me for pointing out that he was so full of shit as to burst.

Children were ‘programmed’ to spout bible verses at random. Children were programmed to know the books of the bible, frontwards and backwards. They were given prises if they could start at a random chosen book and either go forward or backward from there.

They spent so much time learning about the bible that they didn’t actually learn the bible. Treat others, etc…

I remember one of the Hill daughters actually going out of her way to block my car at the local grocery store. God but she hated me…

That experience alone worked a great deal to turn me away from their god. And god that would support that kind of hatred wouldn’t blink an eye at one of them killing me or beating me to a pulp.

One other thing. The Hills lived on an old dirt road next to a field that had a major trail through it that crossed the road. I used that trail at one time to get back and forth to a summer job. Well, the Hill’s decided to string a stretch of barbed wire across the trail. Thank god it wasn’t attached or it would have done a lot more damage than it did.

Spiteful, hateful, negative and ‘kissed by the all mighty. Never has a more toxic soup been concocted… That ‘church’ still exists, BTW… They even have a web site: http://www.eastbaycalvary.org/

The ‘pastor’ at the time was a grade-a prick. He gave me the willies when he looked at me. And he liked to look at the young girls…

He hated movies. He hated John Denver (for being a druggie ‘Rocky Mountain High’ indeed). He hated me for pointing out that he was so full of shit as to burst.

Children were ‘programmed’ to spout bible verses at random. Children were programmed to know the books of the bible, frontwards and backwards. They were given prises if they could start at a random chosen book and either go forward or backward from there.

They spent so much time learning about the bible that they didn’t actually learn the bible. Treat others, etc…

I remember one of the Hill daughters actually going out of her way to block my car at the local grocery store. God but she hated me…

That experience alone worked a great deal to turn me away from their god. And god that would support that kind of hatred wouldn’t blink an eye at one of them killing me or beating me to a pulp.

One other thing. The Hills lived on an old dirt road next to a field that had a major trail through it that crossed the road. I used that trail at one time to get back and forth to a summer job. Well, the Hill’s decided to string a stretch of barbed wire across the trail. Thank god it wasn’t attached or it would have done a lot more damage than it did.

Spiteful, hateful, negative and ‘kissed by the all mighty. Never has a more toxic soup been concocted… That ‘church’ still exists, BTW… They even have a web site: http://www.eastbaycalvary.org/

From comparing the preacher talking to the crowd about their wounds to Tony Robbins talking to upper east side women about their wounds (he actually indicates that those women’s worst problems would be their husband taking away their Saks card)

You really need to watch Real Housewives of NYC if you don’t think that statement is acccurate.

In this article alone, he mocks women multiple times - almost every time he wants to make fun of the preacher’s content or impact on the crowd. From comparing the preacher talking to the crowd about their wounds to Tony Robbins talking to upper east side women about their wounds (he actually indicates that those women’s worst problems would be their husband taking away their Saks card) to comparing the preacher’s stage emotion to menopausal housewives, to mocking an overweight woman (her bag smelled and looked like a sack of cheeseburgers) while fat men had bellies like bulls and something to be proud of, Taibbi certainly comes of as misogynist to me.

Note that this is the only writing of his I’ve read, but I imagine that if using analogies that mock women to bring the humour is his standard modus operandi, then there really is no question. He is a misogynist.

I don’t know what he’s up to these days, but his book about his time in Moscow fairly drips with misogyny, if I remember correctly. To be completely fair, I think his co-author did more of the crowing about having sex with 14 year old girls. But I’m pretty sure they were both pretty psyched about sexually harassing their secretary (who liked, of course!).